About Axel Ranisch
Born 1983. Axel Ranisch is a German actor, film director, screenwriter, film screenwriter and director.
Axel Ranisch (born 30 June 1983 in East Berlin) is a German actor, film and television director and author.
Life Ranisch spent his childhood in Berlin-Lichtenberg. He studied theatre pedagogy in Flecken Zechlin until 2004. From 2004 to 2011 Ranisch studied at Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. Ranisch works as a film and theatre director, and as an actor in different film, theatre and TV productions in Germany. Ranisch shot the film Pink Children (2012) with 4 other German directors about their mentor Rosa von Praunheim. In 2018, he published and authored the book Nackt über Berlin. In 2016, he married his partner Paul in Berlin.
Filmography Director Short films 2004: Rhythmus im Kopf 2005: Hollbüllhuus 2008: Liebe Liebe… 2010: Diego Alonso
Cinema and television 2008: Der will nur spielen! 2008: Glioblastom 2011: 2012: Pink Children 2013: 2013: Reuber 2015: 2015: Löwenzahn 2016: Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden 2016: Tatort: Babbeldasch (Lena Odenthal Tatort; SWR) 2017: Tatort: Waldlust (Lena Odenthal Tatort; SWR) 2018: Löwenzahn
Actor Television 2007: Sechs tote Studenten (director: Rosa von Praunheim) 2009: Résiste – Aufstand der Praktikanten (director: Jonas Grosch) 2009: Meine Daten und ich (director: Philipp Eichholtz) 2011: (also editing) (director: ) 2011: Wie man leben soll (director: David Schalko) 2012: (director: Isabel Kleefeld) 2013: Axel und Peter – Titten für Arsch (director: Rosa von Praunheim) 2014: Zorn – Tod und Regen (1. Teil der Serie Zorn, director: Mark Schlichter) 2014: Liebe mich! (director: Philipp Eichholtz) 2015: Zorn – Vom Lieben und Sterben (director: Mark Schlichter) 2015: Zorn – Wo kein Licht (director Christoph Schnee) 2016: Zorn – Wie sie töten (director: Jochen Alexander Freydank) 2017: Zorn – Kalter Rauch (director: Andreas Herzog) 2017: Blind & Hässlich (director: Tom Lass) 2019: Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden
Theatre 2009: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess at Brandenburger Jugendtheater, co-Regie, together with Christiane Ziehl 2013: The Bear by William Walton & La voix humaine from Francis Poulenc at Bayerischen Staatsoper (Spielstätte: Kino Theatiner Film) 2014: George (UA) Komische Oper in three acts, with a prolog and an epilog. music from Elena Kats-Chernin, libretto from Axel Ranisch, a production from Danya Segal and Theater für Niedersachsen in cooperation with Niedersächsische Musiktage and KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen 2015: Pinocchio by Pierangelo Valtinoni at Bayerische Staatsoper (Reithalle) 2018: Konrad oder Das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse by Christine Nöstlinger at Theater an der Parkaue 2018: Orlando paladino from Joseph Haydn at Bayerischen Staatsoper (Prinzregententheater) 2018: Die Liebe zu drei Orangen from Sergei Prokofjew at Staatsoper Stuttgart 2019: Mavra from Igor Strawinsky & Jolanthe by Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski at Bayerische Staatsoper (Cuvilliés-Theater)
Writer Nackt über Berlin, Ullstein fünf Verlag, Berlin 2018. 384 pages
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German actor, film director and screenwriter
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Axel Ranisch was born in 1983 in Berlin.
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Axel Ranisch is an actor, film director, screenwriter, film screenwriter and director.
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Axel Ranisch is German.
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